Roddis Line - Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company

Iron County Heritage Area

William Henry Roddis realized that a fortune could be made in the woods.

In 1903, he purchased a parcel of land to build a mill in Park Falls. Roddis bought 35,000 acres of timber land in Iron and ...

The Mammoth Consolidated Gold Mine

Mammoth’s famous gold mining boom began in 1877 and ended abruptly in 1881 when the Mammoth Mining Company’s property was sold at a sheriff’s sale. Miners have contributed to prospect and mine Red Mountain on a small scale to this ...

In Honor of Chief Toquer

In early June 1854, eight members of the Southern Utah Indian Mission left Harmony to visit Toquer, chief of the Paiute Indian band living on lower Ash Creek. Chief Toquer's tribe referred to themselves as Paiute, Toquit, or Toquart Indians. ...

Old Sterrett Cemetery

“Cedars of Beulah Land Burial Ground”

This cemetery was established around 1841. The oldest marked grave is for Polly Webster (1822-May 3, 1841), daughter of Beulah Land founder Henley Webster, born February 5, 1805 in Anderson County, SC and died February ...

Site of Columbia College

On this site stood Columbia College an institution of higher learning for men. First proposed in 1831, chartered by General Assembly in 1833, began its work in 1834. First session of University of Missouri held here in 1841. This college ...

Papal Visits to New York City

Pope Paul VI * Pope John Paul II * Pope Benedict XVI

Panel 1:

His Holiness, Pope Paul VI

on his arrival

for the first Papal visit

to America

came to this Cathedral

to adore

the Blessed Sacrament

4 October ...

General Daniel Harris Reynolds, C.S.A.

A descendent of Knox County’s earliest pioneers, Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds was born just three miles west of Centerburg in 1832. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, where he became a close friend of Otho Strahl, another ...

George Clinton Swallow

A.M., M.D., L.L.D.

First Professor of Geology, Chemistry, Agriculture, and First Dean of

The College of Agriculture

University of Missouri.

First State Geologist of Missouri.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hurricane/LaVerkin Bridge

In 1908 the Midland Bridge Company was awarded a contract in the amount of $3,299 to fabricate and erect the Hurricane/LaVerkin Bridge. This structure incorporates distinctive characteristics in its method of construction, is one of the earliest and longest surviving ...

La Verkin Canal

In December of 1888, Thomas P. Cottam and Thomas Judd made a preliminary survey to determine the probable cost of a canal. Early in 1889, Isaac C. MacFarlane made a working survey, and work was started as soon as his ...